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Quotes About Stability

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol ' or when I was 10.
~ Kelly Clarkson
We all seek stability," he quoted Langer as saying. "We want to hold things still, thinking that if we do, we can control them. But since everything is always changing, that doesn't work. Actually, it causes you to lose control." Yet if you understand reading as a mindful person, "uncertainty creates freedom to discover meaning. If there are meaningful choices, there is uncertainty
~ Ken Bain
By emphasizing a deep root and strong foundation, the student can reach to the high heavens without fear of toppling over.
~ Kenneth S. Cohen
There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
~ Kenny Guinn
We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.
~ Kenny Loggins
Incremental design—We invest in the design every day, but we have the additional constraint that we need to keep our APIs stable.
~ Kent Beck
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
~ C. S. Lewis
They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like it.
~ C.E. Murphy
The psyche is a self-regulating system that maintains itself in equilibrium as the body does.
~ C.G. Jung
For the sake of mental stability and even physiological health, the unconscious and the conscious must be integrally connected and thus move on parallel lines. If they are split apart or "dissociated," psychological disturbance follows.
~ C.G. Jung
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.
~ Calvin Coolidge
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.
~ Calvin Coolidge
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
~ Calvin Trillin
With a market capitalization of $5 billion as of writing, the most popular crypto-collateralized stablecoin is DAI, created by MakerDAO9 and and backed by ETH and other crypto assets. It is soft pegged with economic mechanisms that incentivize supply and demand to drive the price to $1.
~ Campbell R. Harvey
Important characteristics of money included durability, portability, divisibility, uniformity, limited supply, acceptability, and stability.
~ Campbell R. Harvey
There was no explosion.Everything was all okay
~ Carl E. C. Weekley
You get what you design for. Chester, your peer in Development, is spending all his cycles on features, instead of stability, security, scalability, manageability, operability, continuity, and all those other beautiful 'itties.
~ Gene Kim
Imagine a world where product owners, Development, QA, IT Operations, and Infosec work together, not only to help each other, but also to ensure that the overall organization succeeds. By working toward a common goal, they enable the fast flow of planned work into production (e.g., performing tens, hundreds, or even thousands of code deploys per day), while achieving world-class stability, reliability, availability, and security.
~ Gene Kim
we are no longer able to respond quickly to our changing competitive landscape, nor are we able to provide stable, reliable service to our customers. As
~ Gene Kim
Frequently, Development will take responsibility for responding to changes in the market, deploying features and changes into production as quickly as possible. IT Operations will take responsibility for providing customers with IT service that is stable, reliable, and secure, making it difficult or even impossible for anyone to introduce production changes that could jeopardize production. Configured this way, Development and IT Operations have diametrically opposed goals and incentives.
~ Gene Kim
In the technology value stream, we optimize for downstream work centers by designing for operations, where operational non-functional requirements (e.g., architecture, performance, stability, testability, configurability, and security) are prioritized as highly as user features.
~ Gene Kim
If we know it's that prone to crashing, why do we need to change it?
~ Gene Kim
What I want is for it to keep the lights on. It should be like using the toilet. I use the toilet and, hell, I don't ever worry about it not working. What I don't want is to have the toilets back up and flood the entire building.
~ Gene Kim
Safety is a precondition of work.
~ Gene Kim